the 1958 Gran Prix of Cuba color photos

 there is a very unusual car in gold color above... anyone know what it is?

 Wow, in the above photo are a lot of cool things, firetrucks, fuel tankers, a pre 1958 Shell Station, a ww2 jeep, racing t bird, lots of great old cars and trucks, and a great trailer

images from http://www.cubagreenscreen.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=14818 thanks to Kurtis Grant who tipped me to them

More coverage with an entirely different gallery of images at
http://www.velocetoday.com/the-cuban-grand-prix-1957-part-2-of-3/#more-45991 

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Hodad's in Ocean Beach, San Diego... best cheeseburger in the city, voted the best in a lot of polls in a lot of magazines and newspapers, by the readers... and it has this cool VW van cab as a booth

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Festival of rolling kitchens in Amsterdam, some of the 70 gourmet food vendors

thanks to Mike V for letting me know, and sending me the link to his Picasa to share with all of you! 

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Norm Daniels has the incredible talent of making VW bus caricatures, these are awesome

A lot more of these are on his website, http://normhere.com/cartoons and if you click the thumbnails, they expand to full screen, way cool!

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slammed VW vans

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interesting things I couldn't resist sharing, from Bugstock 2012

 wow, luggage turned into an audio video mobile/portable/removeable case... cool!

even a Von Dutch touch

Ummm, good sense of humor? No, commentors Fred and TouringBubble said this was a factory transmission, VW automatic stickshift, when you pushed down on the shift lever the clutch engaged, you still had to shift, just without the foot clutch

Roth above, and blowing my mind, this Roth decal was on another car... when was the last time you've seen a real Roth decal?

Dealership plates? WTH?

What is with the stand up area? They were factory accordian style expandables

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